BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Individual Mandate As A Tax

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26. BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Individual Mandate As A Tax 5-4 Roberts

this is just mentioned on ABC and they're saying a sweeping victory for Obama
The Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate in Obamacare, paving the way for full implementation of the law in the states and ensuring that millions of uninsured Americans haves access to affordable coverage. The court upheld the provision as a tax. The Medicaid expansion is limited, but not invalidated, the court found. Roberts joined Sotomayor, Bryer, Ginsburg, Kagan.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/06/28/507940/breaking-supreme-court-upholds-individual-mandate-as-a-tax/


Supreme Court Health Care Decision: Individual Mandate Survives
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/supreme-court-health-care-decision_n_1585131.html

The individual health insurance mandate is constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding the central provision of President Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act.

The 5-4 majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld the mandate as a tax, although concluded it was not valid as an exercise of Congress' commerce clause power. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined in the majority.